Like their father, Fayerweather and his brother Solomon took up blacksmithing as a skilled trade, as did several of their descendants. It was a key position in a 19th-century village. Fayerweather moved to
Canterbury, Connecticut, where in 1833 he married
Sarah Harris (1812–1878), a free black woman born in
Norwich, Connecticut, to free parents. She was the first African-American girl admitted to
Prudence Crandall's school in Canterbury. Several parents took their daughters out of the school, and it was closed under the notorious Connecticut Black Law of 1833. Fayerweather and his family moved to Kingston in 1855 to the Fayerweather homestead; he followed his father and brother Solomon as the village blacksmith. Their residence became a center of anti-slavery activity in the community, and they entertained numerous famous abolitionists in their home. Fayerwether died on 13 November 1869 in Kingston, and was buried at Old Fernwood Cemetery. ==External links==